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| Wii outsells PS3 in Japan |
6/6/2007 |
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Sony Corp. took another blow with Nintendo Co.'s Wii game console outselling its PlayStation 3 by more than five to one in Japan last month
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| Acer crowned world 3rd largest |
6/6/2007 |
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Acer surpassed Lenovo in the first quarter as the world's third largest PC maker in terms of units shipped, a market research firm said.
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| iPhone to hit stores June 29 |
6/4/2007 |
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Apple Inc. will start selling its iPhone on June 29. Apple announced the date on Sunday, with three television commercials showing off the phone's large touchscreen and ability to watch video, play music and display photos.
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| Gartner lowered 2007 semi growth |
6/4/2007 |
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Gartner said it had cut its forecast for the semiconductor industry's 2007 performance to $269.2 billion, a 2.5 percent increase from 2006. In Gartner's previous forecast, it predicted a 2007 revenue increase of 6.4 percent.
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| Flextronics acquires Solectron |
6/4/2007 |
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Flextronics International Ltd. said that it would acquire rival Solectron Corp for $3.6 billion in cash and stock.
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| Hynix to sell fab to TSMC |
6/4/2007 |
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TSMC may be looking to cut a deal with Hynix Semiconductor that would see the foundry spend nearly $1 billion to pick up a 200mm wafer mega-fab with a capacity of 129,000 wafers per month.
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| MMCA card to have USB compatibility |
6/1/2007 |
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It slips into a standard USB slot yet complies with MMC electrical specs. That means consumers wouldn't need to buy MMC/SD card readers for PCs, and if it proves popular then system designers may not need to design in internal readers, either.
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| PC Big 3 workgroup allied to develope NAND controller standard |
6/1/2007 |
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Dell, Intel and Microsoft agreed to form the Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface (NVMHCI) working group, chaired by Intel. The group will draft by the end of the year a software interface linking a PC and its operating system to a flash module controller.
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| Dell see signs of turning around |
6/1/2007 |
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"The results are way better than expected," said American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu, who rates Dell shares as neutral. "They are surprisingly strong in the U.S. enterprise market given that the environment is somewhat mixed."
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| China set universal charger requirement into law |
6/1/2007 |
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All cell phones designed after June 14 must adopt the universal charger interface, based on USB, otherwise they will not be approved for sale in China, according to the Ministry of Information Industry, which is responsible for enforcing the rule.
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| 20% Growth for China Chip Market,Bubble or Boom |
5/31/2007 |
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iSuppli Corp., market research firm predicted that China's semiconductor market growth is expected to continue its acceleration in 2007, meanwhile warning that today's boom in the region could well lead to tomorrow's burst.
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| Sony Has Two More Compact Laptop Lines |
5/31/2007 |
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Sony launchs two unbelievably compact laptops -- the TZ Series, a stylish new laptop generated from the popular TX Series, and the SZ5, an upgrade to the popular SZ Series.
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| Google to Tackle Offline Access |
5/31/2007 |
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Gears, the early-stage browser will help with one of the thorniest problems facing Web-hosted applications--offline access,brought up by Google Inc..
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| Motorola to Slash 4000 More Jobs |
5/31/2007 |
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Motorola Inc. said it's shrinking of an additional 4,000 jobs,with the expectation to reduce costs to return to profit. Thus it brings the total of cut-down-job number to 7,500 this year.
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| SMA Predicts Capital Spending Cut in Semi-Industry |
5/30/2007 |
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SMA (Strategic Marketing Associates ) has cut its capital spending forecast for 2007 by 50 percent.The firm previously forecast capital spending this year to increase by 10 percent to almost $60 billion; however, it is now forecasting only five percent growth and warning that growth could dip to zero.
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| Samsung Bumps up Storage Capacity in 3G Phones |
5/30/2007 |
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With a four gigabyte multi-chip package,Samsung Electronics is cranking up the storage capacity in 3G mobile phones. It is said that this multi-chip package will prompt some phone makers to design out external memory card slots.
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| NEC Employees in Kickback,Fake Order Scandal |
5/30/2007 |
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As Tax investigators looking into NEC Corp. have found that employees placed fake orders and took kickbacks, compounding the problems at a company long dogged by accounting troubles,this Japanese electronics maker now possibly faces a Nasdaq delisting.
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| UTAC see continue oversupply in DRAM |
5/29/2007 |
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Tsai said DRAM oversupply will not see any improvement before 2008. Given that the current price of DRAM has exceeded production costs.
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| Accidental Death of Altera CEO Rodney Smith |
5/29/2007 |
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Rodney Smith, was killed Friday in a bicycle accident in Menlo Park. As a sports-car loving executive he built a startup programmable-logic company called Altera into an industry powerhouse and retired four years ago as chairman and CEO of the FPGA company.
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| Bad Year Comes to Contract Chip Makers |
5/29/2007 |
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Contract chip makers will have a tough time this year, as analysts lower revenue projections for contract chip makers to 5.1 percent, market researcher Gartner Inc. said Monday.
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